Category: crosspostr

ralfmaximus:

confusedbyinterface:

prokopetz:

I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve

analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that – I deal with them on a daily basis.

“Memes have educational value” actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spiders Georg is an outlier adn should not be counted

Now we’re learning about irony and recursion.

stephendann:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

My town just got a new temporary rule where you can only walk around the giant volcano lake clockwise

It’s to help with social distancing but it sure sounds weirdly superstitious

“If one wishes to avoid the plague, one must no pass widdershins around the sacred waters”

The tourism guys have also replaced their usual slogan “Discover Mount Gambier” with “Plan to discover Mount Gambier later”, which is amazing.

Clockwise laking is apparently a thing now.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6724372/travellers-around-lake-burley-griffin-asked-to-go-clockwise-only-to-cope-with-social-distancing/